Homeless and suspended in California [chalkbeat.org]

Mathew Portell 9/28/2312:00 PM

^{A new analysis shows that California’s schools are twice as likely to suspend students who are homeless — potentially derailing their academic prospects.Elaine Cromie / Chalkbeat}

By Amy DiPierro, Chalkbeat, September 27, 2023

Federal education law explicitly seeks to help homeless children and youth stay in school, in the hopes academic opportunity will allow them to break the cycle of housing instability.

Taking them out of class could worsen their chances of success.

But an analysis of data in California shows the state’s homeless students are suspended at higher rates than their peers.

California schools suspended more than 12,000 students who were identified as homeless in the 2021-2022 school year, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of the most recent data available. That means nearly 6% of all homeless students were suspended compared to roughly 3% of all other students.

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Robert OlcottMember

As an [then 17 year old] 'Emancipated Minor', working half-days at Eastman-Kodak, during my senior year of High School, after 'couch-surfing' for two winter months, I had rented a 'suitable apartment', I was arrested for not having taken an essential course in 'Financial Literacy' (how to address getting your utilities turned on without a credit rating). Fortunately, the school principal refused the Dean's wish to expel me [absent being 'convicted'],, and I graduated about two months later. This occurred in New York State over 50 years ago; Hopefully California will make 'progress in this 21st century [sooner, rather than later]....

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